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A compound, derivative, or phrase that is introduced into a language through translation of the constituents of a term in another language (e.g. superman from German Ubermensch).

Proving a word is a calque sometimes requires more documentation than an untranslated loanword, since in some cases a similar phrase might have arisen in both languages independently. This is less likely the case when the grammar of the proposed calque is quite different from that of the language proposed to be borrowing.

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